Hello I'm Mike Manley, welcome to my studio Blog. I am veteran comic and animation artist and I created and edit Draw! Magazine. This blog is a chronicle of what's happening in my studio. Follow my process and path as an painter, cartoonist and teacher and find out how they inform and enrich each other!
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Life Painting Mid-Term
This is the final, or the point at which I stopped on my second painting in Al Gury's life painting class. I guess this would be my Mid-Term assignment. I had to use a photo to finish this up at home since I missed one week due to my cold and the fact that I am not able to get the second uninstructed class with the model every week as I teach that day. So that meant I had half the time most of the class had to do the painting, hence the use of the photo to help out--which also can lead to other issues like distortion of color and the camera does have a slight fish-eye/wide angle distortion as well. It's also from a fixed point which doesn't allow me to move as see more angles on the model to understand something better.
there are parts I am happy with and parts I am not, but with these class paintings I always feel rushed and like i never get a good footing at times. Out of a 3 hour class, once a week, about 90 minutes painting time is all you get with set-up, breaks and clean-up. So it's a sprint to the finish to be sure.
Below is a more detailed picture.
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2 comments:
Amazijng for such a short amount of work time. I love the lighting, the painting of the highlights, esp on the face
Thanks Alan, I always feel like the fuse is lit in class and I am racing to avoid disaster.
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